That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
THOMAS HOBBESWhatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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